The Bears and The Bees.

Last Saturday, at The Belmont Burlesque Review, Paris Green and I performed one of her numbers, called "Honey!"

Tonight, Hendo posted a video of it up on YouTube. I think it's pretty funny. Here's the clip. I've posted my thoughts about it after the clip. I mention some spoilers there, so they really are better read after you've watched the clip.

(Be forewarned that the video might not be work-place safe. There's a girly shaped blob dancing in sexy ways and at the end, you get the idea that she's topless with pasties on. It's not a "sex tape" per se. But if you're the least bit worried about it, view it when you get home.)



Paris Green has designed a really nice, very light, playful number there and the audience really likes it. The thing that I like about it is how it sets the audience up to think "Oh, I get it. She's dressed as a Bee and she eats some honey from her honey pot and that's vaguely vaginal and that's all very sexy and whatnot." And they're lured into that false sense of security and then I make a BIG ENTRANCE and it actually turns into a very silly chase sequence and a tug-o-war of her using her sexuality to get something from the big, dumb man-person. So there's this whole other level to the piece that kicks in half way through the number and I think that's just smart direction. Lead the audience to expect one thing and then give them something else entirely. That's just good theater!

Which just also happens to feature a nice rack too.

So, the piece has a lot of good things going for it.

Hendo posted quite a few videos from that show (one of our tightest, funniest shows in a while) on Youtube. You can view them on his Youtube channel, right here!

Cheers,
Mr.B